I’m pretty sure Chip Davis had no idea when he created a Christmas album in a studio with a small group of friends that Mannheim Steamroller would take off as it did in the 1980s. Here’s “Deck the Halls,” from that first album released in 1984, called “Christmas.”

The Chieftains with Marianne Faithful sing “I Saw Three Ships” from their 1991 “Bells of Dublin” album.